Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.
Choosing the right collection component

Use these guidelines to select a JET collection component based on your user tasks and the features you wish to include. You can choose between the following components:

  • List (oj-list-view, 2007.0.0)
  • Table (oj-table, 2007.0.0)
  • Data grid (oj-data-grid, 2007.0.0)
Wiretext — Unicode Wireframe Design Tool
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A Unicode wireframe design tool where everything renders as box-drawing characters. Create wireframes, diagrams, and mockups. Share as text.

Quality in the Age of Slop

This blog post is very long and almost entirely about the 1974 bestseller Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. It is also about AI—there will be some juicy takes, pinky swear—but those familiar with ZAMM should consider themselves warned.

Bent, Not Cut — Plywood Stool
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If you could bend plywood easily,
that would be a lot of fun, right?

By adding evenly spaced grooves,
plywood bends surprisingly well.

This time, I used that curve
to make a stool 👍

Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers | GitHub - ahrm/sioyek
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Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers - ahrm/sioyek

A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about | mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know | GitHub
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A collection of (mostly) technical things every software developer should know about - mtdvio/every-programmer-should-know

Specimens of printing types made at Bruce's New York Type-Foundry : George Bruce's Son & Co : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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352 leaves : 31 cm

From Fatih Arslan:

I looked into how it was done earlier. If you want to see how type specimens looked across different periods, there are some great examples online. The 1882 Bruce’s New-York Type-Foundry specimen book on Archive.org is a beautiful old example of how foundries presented their typefaces to printers: